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This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Same as it ever was
I'm actually willing to bet that people are more informed in general these days because of social media and the internet overall. Look at all the biased bullshit in the news, back before the internet you just had to believe whatever content you were being fed, something we still have to deal with for sure, but at least being slapped with propaganda from all sides is starting to make us suspicious of content in general.
I predate the internet and honestly I can't remember people ever being so aggressively stupid. Social media has fucked them up.
Sure, we've always had reactionaries shovelling Murdoch dogshit directly into their skulls, but they weren't cults.
Fox News wasn't founded until 1996 so the internet actually predates "reactionaries shoveling Murdoch bullshit"
Murdoch has owned major media outlets since the early 80s, including toilet paper like The Sun.
In the UK and Australia, yes
I've got no idea why you're saying that like it makes you correct.